education they receive. School enrollment rates have increased dramatically in developing counties since 1960, but many children … still leave school at a young age and often learn little while in school. This chapter reviews recent research on the impact …

compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers … with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially …

, improving the efficiency of school seats allocation. I show that parents of low-ability males select schools with lower peer …Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a … specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in …

We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis … exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children … typically underperform their older peers. Parents respond to lower performance by providing additional homework help, while …

I show that parents select schools by considering attributes of the student-school match that improve the learning … outcomes beyond average school quality. Using the centralized algorithm for offers to primary school in London, I compare the … most-preferred school versus an institution ranked lower increases achievement by 0.10 SD beyond school value-added among …

find that (a) students who go to a better school get higher scores on an exam used for university admission, (b) parents of …Pop-Eleches and Urquiola (2013) apply a regression discontinuity to the Romanian secondary school system, and notably … students who get into a better school help their kids less with homework, and (c) kids who go to a slightly better school …

Can inequalities in private school access be bridged through a government mandate? Enacted in 2009, India's “Right to … chosen by targeted households in one of the largest cities in India. Applying a double-difference estimation strategy, we … compare the school choices of the targeted children and their elder siblings (not eligible for the mandate) between the …

explicitly testing the importance of conditionality on one specific outcome related to human capital formation, school enrollment … beneficiaries who received transfers did not receive the forms needed to monitor the attendance of their children at school. We use … likelihood that children attended school with this effect most pronounced when children are transitioning to lower secondary …

Number of international schools is rising in India recently. The trends are presented and various reasons for the … international education, and elitism are identified as a few major factors influencing the rise of international schools in India …. The future impact of the rise of international schools on the Indian school education scenario is analysed …

This study combines household survey data from the Beninese Demographic and Health Survey with school supply statistics … in order to investigate regional and gender disparities in primary school attendance rates in Benin. Despite almost … unparalleled increases in enrolment since the 1990s, Benin remains virtually ignored in the literature surveying school attendance …